[Hiring] Regional Principal, AI Economic Preparedness @Windfall Trust

Role Description

Windfall is hiring a full-time Principal to run a portfolio of AI economic preparedness programs with national governments across various regions. You'll be Windfall's senior counterpart for governments and partners, setting the direction of each engagement and guiding governments from diagnosis to monitoring, policy, and institutional change.

Your work will span seven areas:

• Engagement leadership: Own each country engagement from scoping to close, agreeing on objectives and measures of success with government counterparts, setting scope with delivery partners, leading collaboration, and owning milestones.
• Research direction: Set the starting hypothesis and research questions for each country, direct the analysis and research tools behind each engagement, and review outputs before they reach governments and partners.
• Scenarios and workshops: Adapt Windfall's reference scenarios to each country's context and lead workshops with ministers, senior officials, local experts, and international partners, turning their outputs into agreed next steps.
• Working groups: Identify and convene economists, think tanks, and officials in each country, establish them as standing working groups with a local counterpart institution, and keep them active between workshops.
• Preparedness planning: Guide governments and local partners in setting up early-warning indicators, selecting policy options from Windfall's Policy Atlas, and developing national preparedness plans and research agendas.
• Partnerships and funding: Represent Windfall in the region, participate in conferences and workshops, build relationships with multilateral country offices, regional institutions, and funders, and contribute to proposals that fund new country work.
• Learning across countries: Track what each government monitors, decides, and funds, feed lessons from the region into Windfall's shared approach to country AI economic preparedness, and help shape Windfall's strategy for the region.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in economic policy, international development, government advisory, or strategy consulting, including leading multi-stakeholder programs.
• A track record of leading engagements with governments, ideally ministries of ICT, finance, education, economy, or planning in developing countries or those of the region.
• A grounding in development economics and public policy, such as labor markets, informality, structural transformation, trade, or public finance.
• Experience designing and facilitating workshops or convenings with senior officials.
• Experience building and running expert networks, working groups, or coalitions.
• Experience managing teams, consultants, or partners, and holding budgets and timelines across several workstreams.
• Clear, persuasive writing and speaking for senior government, multilateral, and funder audiences.
• A serious interest in how advanced AI could reshape economies, jobs, and public finances.
• A collaborative, reliable working style suited to a small team spread across time zones.

Requirements

• Nice to have: Experience with a multilateral or development organization (e.g., World Bank, IMF, or OECD), or strategy consulting.
• A background in foresight or scenario planning.
• An existing network of economists and policymakers in the region.
• A working language or experience in the region.
• Experience writing funding proposals or managing funder relationships.

Benefits

• Compensation: $160,000 - $205,000
• Location: Remote, with regular overlap with European and US working hours
• Start date: January 2027
• Travel: ~20–30%, including international travel